Re: Additional thoughts on text transfers

[Niels Provos <provos%citi.umich.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:50:05AM -0500, Richard Whalen wrote:
> Since modern day files may be encoded in a variety of textual formats the
> client and server need to come to an agreement on a format when exchanging
> text files.
I disagree.  You are adding complexity without any significant gain.
I never had any problems transfering text files as binary files
between different operating systems.  Most applications are aware of
the different encodings anyway.  For the rare case that they are not,
you can always convert to your format manually.

I see absolutely no need to burden sftp with this issue.

Niels.